Research Catalog

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Description

1. xx, 271 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Gaff provides a new analysis of general education, focusing on the curriculum reform movement. His book has three basic aims: a contemporary analysis of the public debate and curriculum reforms; an assessment of some of the early results of curriculum changes; and a future agenda that includes shifting organizational priorities and creating structures to better support undergraduate general education. Gaff's agenda mainly calls for the training of a new generation of faculty in the values associated with liberal and general education; the implementation of current general education programs; and the integration of general education with academic majors. The agenda is strengthened by Gaff's study of some 300 colleges and universities that are reforming their general education curricula. Gaff also draws on popular critics, such as Allan Bloom, William Bennett, and E.D. Hirsch. ISBN 1-55542-392-2: $29.95.

Series statement

1. The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series

Uniform title

1. Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.

Subject

1. General education > Curricula > United States
2. Educational surveys > United States
3. College Curriculum
4. Educational Change
5. Educational surveys
6. Allgemeinbildung
7. College
8. Curriculumplanung
9. Allgemeinbildung
10. College
11. Curriculumplanung
12. United States

Contents

1. Part one: Reforming general education: The public debate and the campus response-- Part two: Assessing the impacts of the reforms -- Part three: Sustaining improvements in general education.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-271) and index.